The group, which also includes Facebook Inc. (FB) and Intel Corp., (INTC) will make its case this week as the high court prepares to take up California’s Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot initiative that halted gay marriage after it was allowed for five months.

“No matter how welcoming the corporate culture, it cannot overcome the societal stigma institutionalized by Proposition 8 and similar laws,” the companies will argue, according to a copy of the brief provided by Orrick Herrington Sutcliffe LLP, the law firm representing the group.

Stohr adds:

A larger group of companies — more than 200 — is also poised to side with gay-rights advocates in a second Supreme Court case, involving a federal law that defines marriage as a heterosexual union. Under that law, known as the Defense of Marriage Act, legally married gay couples can’t claim the federal tax breaks and other benefits available to opposite-sex spouses.

The companies in that case are part of a collection of more than 250 employers, including cities, counties and law firms.

This is great news!
I am going to have to start saving. See, my wife and I have rings from our committment 7 years ao and have rings for our legal marriage 3 years back. We wear them both on one finger. I found a ring that has componets from both rings and I promised if the federal government ever recognized our marriage that I would get them and we would have a small service to exchange the 2 rings for 1.
I don't mind having so many anniverseries but i do mind having so many rings to symbolize them all.
But I would marry her again and again and wear ring after ring to show my love.